Social Button BFFs

Adding social widgets such as the Like button, Twitter or Google+ buttons helps drive traffic and engagement to your web site. But it does come at the price: more HTTP requests, more JavaScript to parse and execute. This session shows how you can minimize the cost of including 3rd party code to your pages.

In this session you’ll learn how to use the asynchronous snippets to load third party widgets, whether or not the 3rd party provider advertises it. You’ll see how you can minimize the code required to include a widget and have their impact on your pages minimal and yielding to your main content.